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Closing for Christ

Luis Palau AGAINST Scripture and FOR Homosexuality

Down By the Riverside:Can Portland's young Christian soldiers help Luis Palau's march to the top of the evangelical world?

Quote from Article by PHILIP DAWDY of the Williamette Weekly

pdawdy@wweek.com
Palau also seems willing, if not necessarily eager, to challenge fundamentalist dogma. He sighs when asked whether homosexuality is a lifestyle choice or an encoded genetic predisposition. He explains that a distant relative is gay and that his nephew died of AIDS. And that level of personal contact steered him away from the Bible's injunction, in Leviticus, to stone homosexuals.

"Some people are born with an inclination, it's inborn," Palau says with great passion. "I know that goes against the beliefs of many Christians." He shrugs his shoulders.